Every Monday, my parents come over to watch the kids, so I pack the day with work and appointments that require me to go out. I can get things done without the kids interrupting me,<\/strong> and when I get home, there\u2019s a delicious meal waiting\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n Monday is pretty much heaven. But this morning, a Mac update error left me unable to get any work done, and half the day just slipped away.<\/p>\n What a waste\u2026 ((((\uff1b\uff9f\u0414\uff9f))))<\/span><\/p>\n I had to leave my computer on the whole time, but couldn\u2019t actually use it. So I spent about three hours at a caf\u00e9 playing games on my phone and staring into space. At last, my computer is back up and running. (Thank goodness I managed to fix it myself.)<\/span> My day\u2019s already gone completely off track, so here I am writing a blog post. (Shouldn\u2019t I be working?)<\/span><\/p>\n Now, back to the point. Around this time every year, my husband goes on a business trip to the U.S. for about ten days. The other day, he asked me, \u201cWhy don\u2019t you bring the girls along next year?\u201d<\/span> By this time next year, our older daughter will be nearly five and our younger one almost two. Maybe they could make it through a flight of more than ten hours.<\/p>\n Actually, I started studying English again about two months ago. I can\u2019t exactly make it to English conversation classes, so my approach has been to watch Frozen on DVD over and over, in English with English subtitles. I\u2019ve probably seen it a hundred times by now, so I\u2019m starting to remember quite a few expressions and phrases\u2014including romantic lines that make me think, \u201cWhen on earth am I ever going to use that?\u201d (LOL)<\/p>\n I\u2019ve picked up a lot of phrases this way, and I\u2019d been thinking it would be fun to actually use them in everyday life. So joining my husband on his business trip next year could be a great opportunity\u2014or, to put it plainly, I really, really want to go!!<\/span> I\u2019ve also been thinking that I\u2019d like to change a few things about how I work and earn money by next year.<\/p>\n So, to improve my English, I\u2019ve been wondering if I should try writing this blog in English\u2026<\/span> Or maybe not\u2026 (Make up your mind!)<\/span> More precisely, I\u2019d keep writing this blog as usual while translating the old posts one by one and setting up a separate English-language blog on Hatena Bookmark. I\u2019ve been writing about the Panamera for about five months now, and this blog has started to rank pretty well for Panamera-related search terms.<\/p>\n If it\u2019s made it this far in just five months, then\u2026 if I write in English, Panamera fans around the world might find my blog\u2026!!! ( \uff9f\u2200\uff9f)\uff65\u2235.<\/span> That\u2019s the very optimistic interpretation I\u2019m going with, and I\u2019m getting excited about it.<\/p>\n But if my English grammar is wrong, people might take one look and think, \u201cWhat kind of garbage blog is this?\u201d And translating each post will probably take an absurd amount of time. Is it really worth it? Well, I won\u2019t know unless I try\u2014and if it turns out to be too much work, I can figure that out then. So lately, I\u2019ve been thinking that I might launch an English version of my Panamera blog before long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Surprise Mac Update Error Every Monday, my parents come over to watch the kids, so I pack the day with work and appointments that require me to go out. I can get things done without the kids interrupting me, and when I get home, there\u2019s a delicious meal waiting\u2026 Monday is pretty much heaven. But this morning, a Mac update error left me unable to get any work done, and half the day just...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"https:\/\/www.panamera-life.com\/?p=31","footnotes":""},"categories":[73,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aboutblog","category-nocar-nolife","en-US"],"yoast_head":"Maybe It\u2019s Time to Brush Up on My English<\/h5>\n